Red October [electronic resource] : left-Indigenous struggles in modern Bolivia / by Jeffrey R. Webber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webber, Jeffery R.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 29.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; v. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Bolivia.

Social movements.

Social change--Bolivia.

Social change.

Social conflict--Bolivia.

Social conflict.

Indians of South America--Bolivia--Politics and government.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Bolivia--Government relations.

Peasants--Political activity--Bolivia.

Peasants.

Right and left (Political science)--Bolivia.

Right and left (Political science).

Bolivia--Politics and government--21st century.

Bolivia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales’ successful bid to become the country’s first indigenous head of state in 2006. Building on the theoretical traditions of revolutionary Marxism and indigenous liberation, this book provides an analytical framework for understanding the fine-grained sociological and political nuances of twenty-first century Bolivian class-struggle, state-repression, and indigenous resistance, as well the deeply historical roots of today’s oppositional traditions. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 80 in-depth interviews with social-movement and trade-union activists, Red October is a ground-breaking intervention in the study of contemporary Bolivia and the wider Latin American turn to the left over the last decade.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Chapter One Politics of Indigenous Resistance and Class-Struggle

Chapter Two Indigenous Insurgency, Working-Class Struggle, and Popular Cultures of Resistance and Opposition, 1781–1964

Chapter Three Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Popular Struggle, 1964–85

Chapter Four Neoliberal Counter-Revolution, 1985–2000

Chapter Five Left-Indigenous Insurrectionary Cycle, 2000–3

Chapter Six Red October: Gas-War, 2003

Chapter Seven Carlos Mesa and a Divided Country: Left-Indigenous and Eastern-Bourgeois Blocs in the Second Gas-War of May and June 2005

Chapter Eight Combined-Oppositional Consciousness

Chapter Nine Conclusion: Bolivia, Venezuela, and the Latin-American Left

Appendix A Formal Interviewees

Appendix B Methodology

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-28072-8

9786613280725

90-04-20558-6

OCLC:

754582345

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004201552.i-376 DOI